Floquet-Boltzmann equation for periodically driven Fermi systems

Nonlocal corrections to the Boltzmann equation for dense Fermi systems

A kinetic equation which combines the quasiparticle drift of Landau’s equation with a dissipation governed by a nonlocal and noninstant scattering integral in the spirit of Snider’s equation for gases is derived. Consequent balance equations for the density, momentum and energy include quasiparticle contributions and the second order quantum virial corrections. The medium effects on binary coll...

Fermi Acceleration in a periodically Driven Fermi-Ulam Model

Floquet engineering with quasienergy bands of periodically driven optical lattices

A primer on the Floquet theory of periodically time-dependent quantum systems is provided, and it is shown how to apply this framework for computing the quasienergy band structure governing the dynamics of ultracold atoms in driven optical cosine lattices. Such systems are viewed here as spatially and temporally periodic structures living in an extended Hilbert space, giving rise to spatio-temp...

The Boltzmann Equation for Driven Systems of Inelastic Soft Spheres

We study a generic class of inelastic soft sphere models with a binary collision rate g that depends on the relative velocity g. This includes previously studied inelastic hard spheres (ν = 1) and inelastic Maxwell molecules (ν = 0). We develop a new asymptotic method for analyzing large deviations from Gaussian behavior for the velocity distribution function f (c). The framework is that of the...

Stability Analysis of Periodically Switched Linear Systems Using Floquet Theory

Stability of a switched system that consists of a set of linear time invariant subsystems and a periodic switching rule is investigated. Based on the Floquet theory, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for exponential stability. It is shown that there exists a slow switching rule that achieves exponential stability if at least one of these subsystems is asymptotically stable. It is al...